Three student leaders, Huang Zhifeng, Zhou Ting, and Lin Langyan, have decided to plead guilty and go to jail in connection with last year’s anti-delivery assembly case, yet another sad case in the recent spate of government purges.
Their decision, of course, was the result of consultation with their lawyers and a generous gesture of loyalty. It would be better to plead guilty and get a lighter sentence than to plead guilty and get out of jail a good man.
Of course, they will be fully prepared for the hardships they will endure while in prison and how they will cope in the dull and rigid prison life. If I don’t go to hell, who will? This should be their mindset at the moment.
The Chinese Communist Party’s recent wild backlash has reached the point of hysterical psychopathy. After a complete rupture with the United States, the European Union and other Western countries, the CCP has adopted the method of firing, ready to break the pot and make a complete enemy of Hong Kong.
After having no diplomatic way out, the Chinese Communist Party was ready to retreat to the so-called enlightened autocracy of Singapore, with strict political control, economic development, and maintenance of people’s livelihood as much as possible, just like Singapore, to tide over the recent crisis, and then embark on the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, which is economically advanced and politically conservative.
The path of Singapore is one that the Chinese Communist Party is trying to emulate, but given the realities of today’s China, it is impossible to do so. Singapore is a small country with a small population, surrounded by powerful enemies, but it is geographically important, and with Lee Kuan Yew’s fusion of Chinese and Western dominance, it is relatively easy to control the situation. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been practicing socialism for many years, and the reform and opening up of the country was once marked by capitalism, ethnic conflicts at home, and social conflicts that are acutely complex, while abroad it has fallen out with the West.
Faced with this reality, the Chinese Communist Party is likely to go the way of North Korea’s total isolation. North Korea has been completely closed for more than seventy years, and it has been hard on the outside world, with barefooted people not afraid to wear shoes, while internally it has been brainwashed and brutally suppressed. Decades of economic ruin, withering people’s livelihood, famine and death of countless people, and inhumane torture such as cannon dueling and dog dueling against political opponents, and anti-humane ruling methods, have kept the dynasty alive for decades, and still remain unshaken.
As long as the doors of the country were closed to the outside world, western culture and information could not be imported, and the economy could be sustained, the Chinese people, with their fear of sticking to their ways, and with a long period of brainwashing and tyrannical punishment, were gradually domesticated and accustomed to praise and praise of virtue, and were too docile and obedient to speak out, which is how they continued, hoping to ensure a century of wealth and power inherited from powerful families.
For this reason, the economic value of Hong Kong to the CCP is no longer enough, the most important thing is to domesticate Hong Kong people, which is the fundamental reason for the CCP to use the National Security Law as a front line to settle scores and punish activists of the anti-send-away movement in a short period of time. The recent arrests of a large number of legislators and civil disobedience activists are different interpretations of the same script.
The arrests of Huang Zhifeng, who has wide influence in the international community, and Zhou Ting, who has a large number of supporters in the Japanese government, are bound to cause strong reactions in the international community, as the CCP once again tears off its mask and exposes the hideous face of dictatorship to the world.
In the U.S. and Japan, public opinion against the CCP is overwhelming, and the imprisonment of Huang Zhifeng and his colleagues will arouse the indignation of people from all countries who adore universal values. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will be subjected to even heavier moral pressure from the international community, and will be regarded as the last bastion of dictatorship on earth, with irreversible consequences.
The CCP’s desperate attempt to turn Hong Kong into a city on the mainland should be doable, but they can never turn the whole world into their colony. On the contrary, external pressures are multiplying, and the internal crisis is even more dangerous, and the internal and external responses will make the political changes come faster.
Some legal experts predict that Huang Zhifeng’s sentence will be about three years, and now that he has voluntarily pleaded guilty, he should receive a more or less lenient sentence, and within two or three years they will be free to work for the people of Hong Kong again. They are still young, and their political lives are still long, so going to jail can be seen as a kind of political experience, and they should come back to the limelight as soon as possible.
Earlier, I read the book “A Brief History of Chen Jianmin’s Life in Prison”, and I found that Professor Chen has profound wisdom in dealing with life in prison, and suggested that the three young men could use it as a reference to help them get through the boring days of imprisonment. They should read more, think more, and examine the fate of Hong Kong and China more closely, so that when they come out, they can devote themselves to the Hong Kong people’s movement against tyranny with a more solid and vivid life.
I wish the three young volunteers a smooth completion of this journey of righteousness, the history of Hong Kong will be recorded in this sad and beautiful chapter.
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